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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy

Jan 9, 2017

As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz

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Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory

Dec 26, 2016

The prominence of the debate over ‘reswitching’ has obscured the importance of Piero Sraffa’s profound contribution to economics. It’s time to revisit and build on that body of work

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Race and Economics: Exploring Headwinds and Resilience

Dec 8, 2016

The Institute for New Economic Thinking’s recent Detroit event on race and economics noted both the structural impediments faced by African-Americans, and the impressive gains made in some communities despite those headwinds

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Bracing for Trumponomics

Nov 29, 2016

What we’re reading: Some analysts expect dramatic changes and a short-term boost to the US economy, others predict continuity — and see Trump’s election reflecting a sea change in the global order

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India: Demonetization and its Discontents

Nov 28, 2016

By suddenly eliminating two widely used bank notes, India’s government risks undermining public confidence in the basic means of exchange

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Did the farm credit system change Americans’ thinking about credit?

Nov 7, 2016

Hoping to learn from other countries’ experiences in organizing finance for agriculture, more than 150 Americans were sent abroad in the summer of 1913 to investigate the minutiae of farm-credit systems in and around Europe.

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Rashad Robinson: Building a Civil Rights Movement for the Digital Age

Oct 26, 2016

Wired profiles Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson and explores the challenges of movement-building in an era of digital activism